Itsmelavendersky
Jamie treated CJ's love like a game she was determined to win by forfeiting. For years, he was the inevitable shadow at her heels, the boy who laughed off her cruelest rejections and promised he'd wait forever. She found his persistence annoying, his affection suffocating. She spent every ounce of her energy pushing him away, convinced that she had all the time in the world to decide what to do with him.
Then, the chasing stops. The silence is sudden and absolute.
At first, Jamie tells herself it's a victory. Finally, he got the hint. But as the days turn into weeks, the victory feels hollow. When she finally lowers her pride to find him, she discovers the devastating truth: CJ didn't stop chasing her because he fell out of love. He stopped because he was running out of time. Now, Jamie finds herself in a desperate race against a clock she can't control, trying to pour a lifetime of love into the final, fleeting moments of a boy she didn't realize she needed until he was already fading away.